Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
1996-12-03
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
16 pages, 5 postscript figures, accepted by A&A, main journal
Scientific paper
Very deep imaging data of three optically luminous radio-loud quasars with redshifts between z=0.9 and z=1.36 are presented. The data are complete for galaxies down to R=26. There is no evidence for excess numbers of galaxies around the quasars; foreground galaxy clusters are excluded by the data as well as clusters with richness classes greater than 1 associated with the quasars. We find clear evidence for gravitational lensing for two quasars. It is further shown that due to the high surface density of galaxies all distant (z>1) objects are moderately affected by gravitational lensing; the amplification factors are estimated to be in the range 1.1-1.5.
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